It really is strange that they would leave the companionship of George Wallace, Lester Maddox, William J. Fulbright, Orville Faubus, Al Gore,Sr., Fritz Hollings, Mendell Rivers, Richard Russell and plenty of others who remained staunch Democrats and fought civil rights legislation.

Irony is not supposed to be a boomerang that comes back and smacks you in the nose. It is a tough art and not many have succeeded at it.

Oh, for clarification, check out Hollings and the stars and bars in South Carolina flag. Isn’t it interesting that the civil rights Democrats named the new Senate office building after Russell? Now there is a party that does not forget its roots.

All the black people here who so gleefully lionize/defend the Democrats and criticize the Republicans should find it easy to condemn the effect that welfare and government dependency has had on the black community.

Admit it. The only reason why the Democrats are so popular in poor black neighborhoods is because there are no men there – only shiftless single mothers – who put all their eggs in the governments basket.

If black males where ever allowed to be heads of their households again, you had better believe that the stranglehold that the Democrats have on the black vote would be immediately relieved.

Some of you so effortlessly criticize the Republican party, but you are completely silent on the devastating effect that liberal politics and values in general and the Democrat party in particular has had on black communities in the this country. Politics should come second to “what actually works in real life.”

And you are absolutely correct. The south was predominantly Democratic during the racist years, and in my experience, the racists are still Democrats. “Yellow Dog Democrats”. They are some of the most hateful people you will ever meet.

I carry no brief for the KKK, but let’s at least try to be accurate. Your pictures are of the “Second Klan” which was reborn after Griffith’s Birth of a Nation in 1915. It was fueled by WWI and the belief that many German immigrant farmers were supporting the Kaiser and Germany. Many of those Germans were Catholics. All across the mid-west, “night-riders” appeared on German immigrant farms to deliver the message that they were under deep community suspicion.

The Second Klan was centered in Indiana and is estimated to have had a nationwide following of up to 3 million. Maine, New York and Illinois also had large chapters. Election to Klan leadership was openly recorded in local newspapers as another social event. The Second Klan was anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic, fundamentalist Christian and dedicated to white racial purity. It was not focused on blacks, as the First Clan was, but it was firmly committed to the racism of white supremacy.

The lynchings in the South are fairly well documented. Often, the mob stood around the hanging body and posed for pictures. When you carefully study the lynchings, you will quickly realize that they were not dependent on the KKK or that the KKK was even much of a catalyst. (This is not to deny the impact of the KKK, but to point out that the society at large was guilty.)

Your word picture of Republican Presidents, Governors, Senators, etc. as proud KKK members is biased. The very first thing you will learn when you honestly look into the Second Klan is that it was not politically aligned.

There were largely Republican areas where it had active membership and largely Democrat areas where it had active membership. Your effort to saddle Republicans with the poisoned hearts of the KKK is wishful, biased, political thinking. That dog won’t hunt.

However, the First Klan of black lynchers was decidedly anti Republican and rode against carpetbaggers and scalawags as readily as they the blacks they fingered for a visit or a lynching. That KKK was indeed politically aligned. They were Democrats.

Please do not take short cuts with the historical evidence; revisionism is so fruitless, unless you have a treasure trove of heretofore unknown data.

You all just don’t quit.

None of this supports your claim that “…Republicans…were walking around in Washington DC WHEN THEY DID have hoods on.”

I can do that too:
RACIST!

Speak the truth

Some info about the biggest Terrorist Organization in American History.

You asked where were these Republicans who were walking around in Washington DC WHEN THEY DID have hoods on. For your viewing pleasure sir. Obviously you missed this in your American history lessons. I cant make this stuff up.

See the Capital Building in the background. These KKK events used to be part of regular festivities in Washington DC. Go back and read the history.

This occurred openly until the 1950’s…

http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/1-segregated/images/kkk-parade.jpg

http://rationalrevolution.net/images/kkkdc6.jpg

http://www.rationalrevolution.net/images/kkkdc2.jpg

http://www.rationalrevolution.net/images/kkkdc1.jpg

http://www.the7thfire.com/new_world_order/Freemasonry/kkk-parade.jpg

http://ns.headroyce.org/~us_history/2004/b_gs/images/pages/t_parade_gif.htm

http://home.intekom.com/southafricanhistoryonline/pages/classroom/pages/projects/grade12/lesson7/images/kkk-march.jpg

http://www.pointsouth.com/csanet/graphics/klan/kkk-1920s.jpg

http://interwaryears.8m.net/KKK%20in%20Washington%20in%201925.jpg

http://www.pointsouth.com/graphics/people/kkk-capitol2.jpg

Here are some Famous Klansmen including U.S. Presidents. (Most of which were Republicans).
This is just a partial list Many more U.S. Presidents, Senators, Representatives, Governors, Judges (all levels), Mayors and major Law Enforcement officials were members of, or were strongly affiliated with, this Terrorist organization. (And a few are still out there).

(at bottom)
http://www.kkklan.com/wall.htm

From the above website:

Other notable men were: President Warren G. Harding (R). He was sworn into the Ku Klux Klan in the White House by Imperial Wizard Simmons.

President Calvin Coolidge (R)- He allowed cross lightings on the Capitol steps and reviewed the giant Klan parades of 1925 & 26.

President Harry S. Truman (D) was a minor ordinary Klansman from 1920-22. His membership was not notable. He later had a major falling out with the KKK over his desire to appoint Catholics to key political positions; something the KKK opposed at the time. He severed all ties with the KKK and openly repudiated them. They didn’t call him, “give them Hell Harry”, for nothing. His family has tired to deny his KKK membership ever since.

Supreme Court Justice, Hugo Black, his robes (with his name in them) were found in an old Klan Hall in the 1960’s. Under political pressure, he superficially repudiated the Klan during its period of scandals.

1. The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.

2. Discrimination or prejudice based on race.

Of course people will redefine it to fit in with their personal world-view.
Regards,

John

May I conclude from the behavior of my Democratic relatives – and the recent “blackface” incident from a Lamont campaign worker – that rank and file Democrats are anti-black racists? Or is “guilt by association” a concept that applies only to Republicans?

The Republicans have been trying to get the Hispanic vote, because Hispanics are the largest minority. I am not aware of direct government programs aimed at the Hispanics. My Republican friends are furious that Bush and the Republican Congress have been pandering to the Hispanics through lax immigration enforcement.

What good did it do the Republicans to have an initiative to involve government funded faith-based help with inner-city problems? The ACLU and the Democrats went on the First Amendment warpath.

Republicans have long wished for vouchers so that parents can get their kids out of the trap of union dominated inner city schools that are little more than lousy baby sitting centers. The Democrats, always pandering to their union base, will not consider the voucher option.

There is a widespread belief that Republicans have evil in their hearts where black Americans are concerned. Republicans have generally refused to buy their way into a bidding war with the Democrats for black votes. When someone is sure you are the “boogie man” what are you supposed to do to dispel it?

You are right about the propensity of politicians of all stripes to try to buy favor and votes. But the propaganda machine that has taught so many blacks to say and believe the most outlandish things about Republicans has been very successful.

Bush went back to the NAACP Convention for the first time this year and stood there as they mocked and jeered him. Did his appearance do any good?

What suggestions would give the Republican Party?

And unfortunately racism is rampant within the older generations. My sibling, cousins and I have thrown off that curse.

We literally committed to each other that our generation would not repeat these sins.

However, some of my older relatives will tow the liberal line and HATE Bush and me for supporting him … and they are still very racist. One of whom was absolutely hateful to my brother when he married a beautiful Mexican lady.

So, I agree with you La Shawn but I also see that racism is very much still a part of the democratic base.